Bangalore: Now builders and developers have to save 15% of land for open spaces and community facilities in their proposed residential drafts in order to get the projects ratified from the authorities. This has been mandated recently by the government under section 13E of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961.The rule prevailed earlier, but the HD Kumaraswamy government eased it in March 2006. This gave freedom to the developers as they used the land for private purposes which have to be used for community facilities and open areas. A planning authority fee based on guidance value of the land has to be paid by the developers to avail this facility.This relaxation culminated the proliferation of business parks in the places of residential drafts making it tough for the local planning authorities to allocate spaces for roads and drainage. “Now, the government has withdrawn the provision and made it mandatory to reserve 15% of the land,” said the urban development minister S.Suresh Kumar.When the government was asked to cast off the earlier provision, they replied that the developers who own more than one acre of land used to get the validation by fragmenting the land. “To get around the rule to earmark 15% of land for civic amenities, developers would splinter their projects into works of one acre each. The planning authority exempted them as the proposed layouts would be spread over less than an acre,” the official explained.New residential drafts are in the process of development mainly in the outskirts of Bangalore. The new rule will be followed in every residential layout coming up outside the corporation limits. Developers are accepting the new rule as there is no other way but to address it. This would be better for people as airy and open spaces are much needed in newer residencies.займ на карту без отказов круглосуточновзять кредит онлайн